Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Duke is planning a huge celebration of coach Mike Krzyzewski's 1,000th game with the Blue Devils and the 70th year of basketball at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Duke Varsity Club will play host to what's being billed as the biggest men's basketball reunion in the history of program on Feb. 12-13. Krzyzewski's 1,000th game at Duke will be the 1 p.m. meeting on Feb. 13 with Maryland at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Over 300 former players, coaches, managers and trainers will be invited back. The weekend will include a reception hosted by Duke athletic director Kevin White and an after-game party with the current Duke coaching staff.

"This will be an exciting weekend and a great way to celebrate the history of Duke basketball," White said in a statement.

Who celebrates a 70 year anniversary? I can see 75, but 70? Sounds to me like they're just jealous of all the attention UNC is getting for their 100th anniversary this year. Way to ride the coat tails of your DADDY, Dook! Why don't you come up with an original idea?

You have got to be kidding me!! Dook can't stand it that ole' Roy is taking away all the press from Rat Face. I guess tney needed some positive press since Friday wiill be the day that K loses another top recruit to...you guessed it...Da Heels!!

UNC is a fag school. Why are all you gay fudgepacking, eve carson memorial arm band wearing, homofags posting your trailer park opinions on this? Just because you had to go to a public school doesn't mean you have to be jealous of people who are smarter and have more money than you.

WOW! IF SOME OF THIS WAS POSTED ON AN ARTICLE, YOU WOULD NOT BE READING MOST OF IT!! HEY CO, HOW COME YOU ARE NOT TAGGIN' THESE COMMENTS AS "ABUSIVE AND HAS BEEN REMOVED"? THIS SECTION IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS THE OTHER ARTICLES. I GUESS YOU ALL ARE IN THE LOUNGES READING YOUR OWN HYPE!

Duke fans we can hate each other. But don't ever make the mistake of thinking it is alright to make fun of a student who got shot from point blank range by two thugs from Durham. If you really got a problem lets get up and settle it and maybe it'll be you lying in the middle of the street.

UNC may be a public school, but it costs 10% (you know what a percent is because we know you didn't go there) of what it costs at Duke and it isn't in the murder capital of the south. Durham is a rundown shanty town and looks much more like a trailer park than where any of us came from. Why would anyone pay $35-40,000 a year to live in a crack den?

unc fans good at being hypocritical. they try to act so down to earth, yet think they are the greatest thing to grace the state of north carolina and superior to the other schools in NC.

they think they are so original, yet can't fanthom that plenty of other schools have held alumni games before. of course, if another school decides to have a team reunion (not even an alumni game!), they must be copying the oh-so-original tarholes.

but hey, with the N&O, charlotte observer, and pretty much every other newspaper in NC pumping out pro-unc propaganda day it and day out, it's no wonder tarholes can't think for themselves and spew all this bullshit

Are you guys serious? Carolina fans...it is a celebration of Krzyzewski's 1,000 game. THEY CAN'T HAVE IT ON ANOTHER DAY. You're throwing stones at K saying he is selfish...and yet they can't celebrate his 1,000th game on the day of his 1,000th game because UNC already has their 100 year celebration scheduled that weekend? 70 years at CIS is a big 2nd fiddle here. It is one thousand games at the same program that is being celebrated.

The UNC alumni game was a huge success (may have secured Macadoo AND stolen HB from Duke) and, yes, that may have something to do with the idea and the timing...but why can't they do it? North Carolina b-ball is one of, if not the top program in college b-ball history. But it isn't the only program.

some of you really sound like idiots...and like the great roy williams said....."i dont give a s#!t about unc"...seriously though, 1000 games coached at a school is tremendous and in about 4-5 years, we'll be celebrating his 1000th victory!!!!! GO DUKE!!!

Please tell me why any UNC fan would be jealous of what is going on in Durham right now? 1 Sweet 16 win in the last 7 seasons while UNC has 3 Final Fours and 2 titles in the last 5. It is clearly a transparent attempt at trying to pull back some of the attention UNC is getting. I'd like to see who comes back for this. Clearly the transfers won't. The current NBA guys will be "busy". That pretty much leaves the assistant coaches, Ricky Price, Greg Newton, and Domzalski.

Geez,Fellows and Fellowetts:When did you ALL get started on this bashing? The moment you got off the school bus?Adults can get along. You don't have to have allegiance to the same school/program but don't take this into the gutter. Is this the way you want your kids to act?Duke is a great school, UNC is a great school, NC State is a great school. Wake is a great school. Want your school to win but leave the individual attacks out.

"Are you guys serious? Carolina fans...it is a celebration of Krzyzewski's 1,000 game. THEY CAN'T HAVE IT ON ANOTHER DAY. You're throwing stones at K saying he is selfish...and yet they can't celebrate his 1,000th game on the day of his 1,000th game because UNC already has their 100 year celebration scheduled that weekend? 70 years at CIS is a big 2nd fiddle here. It is one thousand games at the same program that is being celebrated."

So tell me why they're celebrating his 1000th game when it's actually his 997th game at Duke? Do you still think he's not trying to just steal some thunder from UNC's 100th anniversary celebration that same weekend?

Seriously, get the Eve Carson comment out of here. Trash each other's fans and players if you want, but leave somebody like Eve out of this childish back and forth. And for God's sake, grow up people. If Duke wants to celebrate the 1,000th game, let 'em. Whose business is it anyway??? If UNC wants to celebrate 100 years, fantastic. Why should anybody else care???

When will both sides realize they need the other??? Neither program benefits from the other's demise. If you didn't have each other to play twice a year, the conference would be pretty miserable.

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David Scott has been with the Observer for 28 years and has written about ACC, SEC and other college sports in the Charlotte region. He covers Wake Forest, South Carolina and college soccer for the Observer and (Raleigh) News & Observer.

J.P. Giglio covers the ACC for the News & Observer, where he has worked since 1997, and the Observer.

Andrew Carter covers the North Carolina Tar Heels for the Observer and News & Observer.

Laura Keeley covers the Duke Blue Devils for the Observer and News & Observer. Follow her on Twitter.

Chip Alexander covers the Carolina Hurricanes and college football for the News & Observer, where he has worked since 1979, and the Observer.

Luke DeCock has worked for The News & Observer since 2000. He covered the Carolina Hurricanes and the NHL before becoming a sports columnist for the Observer and News & Observer in August 2008.

Tim Crothers is an author and former senior writer at Sports Illustrated who is joining the sports staff to write a regular column during the rest of the college basketball season.